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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Top Ten Tuesday & Teaser Tuesday 7/24/12

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Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Vivid Worlds/Settings In Books

Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy, #1)

Complete set of the seven books of the Harry Potter series.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab you'r current read

Open the book to a random page

Share with us two (2) "teasers" sentences form that page

Be careful not to include spoilers! (make sure what you share doesn't give away too much! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title of the book so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR pile if they'd like

Today my teaser comes from...

"Look," I say as I pull away. The air is cold and smells of salt and fish, but it's a clean smell.

Dash looks down. "There's the tale," he says, "that the whalers tell, about how sea-mist that comes in this far is all the spirits of the dead, looking for the ones they left behind."

~ When The Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen

-page 152

Stopping Picture This

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I know that I already did a Picture This post today but that is going to be the last post I do, Jude over at In Between Writing and Reading has made a post about this, about the copyright problems that has been plaguing the blogging community I have to agree with her, it's best to stop posting any more Picture This posts.

To read Jude's post click HERE

Find out the what Roni Loren went through, click HERE

Picture This 7/23

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This meme used to be Daily Dose (hosted by Holly @ Good Golly, Miss Holly), but now it's going to be Picture This and hosted by Jude @ In Between. The pictures are still @ We Heart It though.

Sacking The Shelves 7/22/12

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Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga at Tynga’s Reviews is just that, it's all about adding (stacking) to you'r bookshelves.

This week I only got ebooks

Bought:

The Unquiet

by Jeannine Garsee

Lightbringer

by K.D. McEntire

Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe

by Shelly Corriell

Pretty Crooked

by Elisa Ludwig

For Review:

darkstar

by Bethany Frenette

The Demon Catchers of Milan

by Kat Beyer

Thanks to Hyperion & EgmontUSA!

That's what I got this week!

Friday, July 20, 2012

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Lisa @ Shatterbooks has reached 300 followers! Congrats! She's having a giveaway! Some great books are up for grabs.

Click here to enter!

Crazy Book Buying Obsession Tag

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This is a Youtube book tag and it was created by Jack @ ReadingWithJack back in June. I don't have a Youtube channel, but it looked so fun, I decided to do this tag on my blog. I hope that's ok. (=

There are 10 questions in this tag, here they are...

1) Do you have an obsession with buying books?
I don't think I do, I enjoy buying books but I have restraint, I can stop buying books if I set a limit for myself.
2) When, where and how often do you buy your books? Do you go with anyone else or just by yourself?
I like to go on the weekdays, especially Mondays because the stores are not that crowded, I go to Barnes and Noble whenever I can but since the closest store to me is over an hour away, I substitute Wal-Mart to get my fix. I buy books once a month. I don't go with anyone when I buy books, mainly because I don't want to feel rushed when buying my books, I like to take my time.
3) What kind of things attract you to books when browsing them? Is there a specific genre of books you automatically go and look at?
I go straight to the Young Adult section of the bookstores first, then I might browse on over to the books on sale. Of course the covers attract my attention, but it's there stories that are the reason that I buy them.
4) Do you prefer to buy new, used or a mixture of both?
I like to get both new and used books. I love new books for the look of them on my shelf. I think books look better on the shelf when they are a brand new hardbacks. I like to get used books because they are easier on the pocketbook. Save a little cash on one of them then I might be able to get another one with the money I saved!
5) How much are you willing to spend on books each month?
I try not to spend more than 50.00 dollars on my addiction.
6) Have you ever gone on any 'book-buying bans'?
Sadly yes, I was on a book-buying ban back in December of 2011. It was torture!
7) How long does it take you to get around to reading to recently bought books?
Depends on what books I'm reading at the time I buy those books. Sometimes I'm only reading one or two books then I'll start the book I just bought, but other times, I don't get around to reading it for a long time.
8) Do you prefer to buy a lot of shorter, cheaper books or just a few longer, more expensive ones?
I don't really think about that when I buy books, I find that I buy shorter books not because they are cheaper but because the longer books kind of scare me off, I guess. Intimidation me. Not that I have not read long books before, it's just that I read slow and it seems like it takes forever for me to read a humongous book. I will buy and read them if they sound good though.
Maybe that's why I have yet to pick up The Lord of The Rings complete three books in one bind up that my dad had gotten me a few years ago. That books a hefty 1000+ pages long, but I did love the movies.
9) Anything else to say about these awesome obsessions?
Book obsessions are not something to be ashamed of. It's not the worst obsession you could have.
10) Who are you tagging?
Everyone. :)

Wow, that's a lot of typing, but it was fun. I hope everyone enjoyed it.
And don't forget to check out Jack's video.